Tips sought in car arson in Marrion neighborhood
Fire investigators are asking anyone with information about an intentionally set car fire in Vancouver’s Marrion neighborhood to call them. The fire was reported at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday at 10508...
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Inslee: Senate Republicans ‘out of control’
Gov. Jay Inslee kicked off a press conference Monday listing a number of tasks still facing state lawmakers: approving a state budget, addressing public school funding, boosting mental health services....
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Sunny day means it is time to play in Vancouver
Four-year-old Jocelyn Leonard-Ulrich told her mother Monday morning that it was a purple-park day. "She names all the parks by the color of the playground equipment," Melissa Ulrich of Vancouver said...
View ArticleWeather Eye: Enjoy sunshine now, as chance of light rain looms
What can I say about Monday’s fine weather? Ahh. I’ll say it again: ahh. What a good feeling against the face the sunshine gave us, despite being low in the horizon. Here are some observations I noted....
View ArticleSki area to offer fat bike demonstration day
Mount Hood Meadows will have four-hour Fat Bike Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the ski area. Fat bikes are modified mountain bikes with tires twice as wide as normal to provide traction on...
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Camas Public Library will remain independent
The Camas Public Library will remain independent after a recommendation from the Camas City Council. The council made its recommendation at the annual planning conference on Jan. 30, when the board...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 02/09
Thursday — 1 adult spring chinook, 4 steelhead. Friday — 10 steelhead. Saturday — 13 steelhead. Sunday and Monday counts not yet available. Streamflow Monday was 125,000 cubic feet per second. Water...
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Middle schoolers visit college to see 3-D printers
Woodland -- Woodland Middle School's Lego Robotics class took a field trip to tour University of Washington's three-dimensional printer research laboratories last month. The class worked last year to...
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Students collect socks for Portland youths
Camas -- During a three-week drive late last year, members of the Camas High School National Honor Society collected 617 pairs of socks. The socks were donated to Transitional Youth and Braking Cycles,...
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Ridgefield fifth-graders design, build carnival games
Ridgefield -- Union Ridge fifth-graders spent five weeks developing, building and testing their own arcade games as part of a cross-curriculum assignment that started in their art class. Alan Adams,...
View ArticleEverybody Has a Story: First lesson in fickleness was learned fast, and stuck
In the fall of 1950, we moved to the rural Kansas town of Altoona. I was 7 years old and in the second grade, and moving to a new school in a new town was, for me, a scary experience. Actually, the...
View ArticleVideo game class comes to Battle Ground
Battle Ground — Video games are coming to the classroom for students in the Battle Ground Community Education program. Starting on Feb. 19, second- through sixth-graders can take Code to the Future:...
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Basketball team raises money for breast cancer
Mountain View — The Mountain View High School girls basketball team and Lady Thunder Booster Club hosted their fourth annual fundraiser for the Pink Lemonade Project on Jan. 19. This year, they raised...
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Food Preservers celebrate thousands of volunteer hours
Hazel Dell — To celebrate another year of volunteering throughout the community, Washington State University's Master Food Preservers held their awards banquet and ceremony on Jan. 23. Last year, the...
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Heritage DECA students qualify for state, international competitions
Orchards -- Heritage High School's DECA team had a strong showing at the Area 9 competition on Jan. 9 in Longview, with 22 students qualifying for the state competition March 3-5 in Bellevue. Four...
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Engineer talks to students about building a new school
Washougal -- Two new schools are currently being built on the grounds near Jemtegaard Middle School, and sixth-graders in Mona Davies' classes are learning about how a school is built from some of the...
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Vancouver Watersheds Alliance reaches out to homeowners along local waterways
Oakbrook-area neighbors have been worrying for years about the fate of a little Burnt Bridge Creek tributary called Peterson Creek. Or is it a ditch? Or a channel? A developer who wanted to plunk down...
View ArticleVancouver apartment complex sells for $35.2 million
The 198-unit Meadows at Cascade Park Apartments at 13314 S.E. 19th St. in Vancouver has been sold to a California-based firm for $35.2 million, the business publication REBusinessOnline reports. The...
View ArticleWeather Eye: Remember this week’s sunshine as rains return
I know we can’t get used to the weather we had the past few days because, after all, it is still winter. Regardless, spring fever abounds in Clark County and lots of people had smiles on their faces....
View ArticlePTSD coping strategies for students discussed
Discuss strategies to help students with post-traumatic stress disorder manage coursework, academic tasks and physical space in classrooms at a free, public forum from 2 to 3 p.m. Feb. 22 in the...
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